Franz Berto is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Editor-in-Chief of The Philosophical Quarterly. His research spans logic, ontology, formal epistemology, and the philosophies of language and computation. In 2018, he joined the Department of Philosophy and the Arché Research Centre at the University of St Andrews. He also maintains an appointment at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam, where he has taught in the MSc in Logic program. Throughout his career, Professor Berto has held academic positions at leading global institutions, including the University of Aberdeen, the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Notre Dame, the Sorbonne-École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the Universities of Padua, Venice and Milan-San Raffaele. His research has received major funding from the European Research Council (ERC), the British Research Council and the Leverhulme Trust.

Rui Sampaio da Silva is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences at the University of the Azores. His international academic trajectory includes appointments as a Visiting Scholar at several prestigious global institutions. He conducted research at both the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Free University of Berlin with the strategic support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Additionally, his research took him to the United States, where he was a Visiting Scholar at Brown University, supported by the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD).